The goal here was transparency, as if nothing was added to your guitar and nothing taken away.
Then you go around to this side:
The top jack goes out to your tuner. It has its own buffer so nothing that happens there can affect your signal. Some tuners are infamous tone-hogs that will kill signal even off on a side chain. That won't happen here.
The next jack is the Send to your pedal board. This is buffered with a state-of-the-art opamp that can drive any load that will be encountered in the wild. Prototypes were built with more usual opamps that sounded good but didn't have these spec's, now we are way ahead of the bunch with great sound and impeccable technical spec's.
The third jack down is the Return from your board.
The bottom jack goes to your amp. Again this is seriously buffered and fully capable of driving huge runs of cable without signal loss. For large stages and ever more common isolation boxes this will get your signal to the amp intact and sounding great.
The switch can either bypass your pedalboard or work as a mute, silencing everything except the tuner out. Choose this option when you order. It can be changed with a simple soldered in jumper by any reasonably competent tech should you change your mind later. If you prefer, a user selectable jumper can be added at a slight extra charge. We don't recommend this as this should be a more or less permanent decision and even with the gold plated connectors we prefer the reliability of soldered connections.
Legends are hand marked on the bottom since we don't anticipate this being plugged and unplugged a lot. Mostly this will get installed on the board and forgotten except to step on it when it's time to tune. You can order top markings if you prefer in legible technician hand lettering.
We are taking orders now, no payment until we are ready to ship in 2-4 weeks. Price is $129 plus $8 flat rate shipping in the USofA.
Please email if you are interested in getting a free test run with the prototype.
